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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Morphogenetic Approach"”.
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Exploring information systems development in English local government : a morphogenetic approach
… case study of an English local authority. The morphogenetic approach - anon conflationary approach to the analysis of the agency/structure dynamic devised by Margaret Archer (1988, 1995, 1998b, 1998c, 2002) - was adopted for the research in order to avoid treating either agents or structures as …
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Local Government Budgeting Practices in a Traditional Setting
… relationships guided by Archer's (1995) morphogenetic approach as the broad methodology, it seeks to understand the interactions of key players in government budgeting practices situated in a traditional setting, and to explain how and why traditional domination in organisations continues …
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The price of freedom: the opportunities and constraints of freelance employment for older workers : a study of media professionals
… thesis and the other by Margaret Archer in her 'morphogenetic' approach to realist social theory. The study found that freelancing did extend working lives and permit a degree of freedom and control in later life. However, it was a form of employment which was insecure, volatile and largely …
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The interplay between structure and agency: How academic development programme students 'make their way' through their undergraduate studies in engineering
… social science, the study uses Margaret Archer's morphogenetic realist social theory to explore the interaction between the university (social and cultural relations) and the students (agential relations). Data was generated through a series of three interviews with each of 12students in the …
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Explaining organisational business process adoption mechanisms - A critical realist perspective on social reflexivity and process affordances
… a critical realist perspective using a morphogenetic approach is adopted to retrospectively analyse the social dynamics that governed the courses of action in a single process change project within an Australian university. This study gives insights into a concrete incidence of a change …
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Exploring ‘People’ as the key element in enterprise architecture implementation: A Critical Realist Perspective
… (CR) and its most recognised methodology, the morphogenetic approach (MA). Realism emphasises ontology and strongly argues that ontology, methodology and epistemology are closely linked – as Fleetwood (2005, p. 197) suggests, ontology matters: “The way we think the world is (ontology) …